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Alison Cole

Articles By Alison Cole

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theartsdesk in Denmark - celebrating Nielsen in high style

Eight years ago I was privileged to be in Denmark on the 150th anniversary of Carl Nielsen’s birth, experiencing for the first time live his...

Andrey Kurkov: Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv review - a city spe...

Rock music helped to subvert the Soviet Union by glamorising youthful rebellion and the...

Groundhog Day, Old Vic review - Tim Minchin’s musical return...

Groundhog Day, appropriately, is back where it started. The hit film about a TV weatherman’s endlessly reiterated day in small...

Album: Yusuf/Cat Stevens - King of a Land

Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ latest combines his apparently effortless immediacy at acoustic guitar songwriting with an orchestrated opulence that sometimes...

Chevalier review - a less than extraordinary film about an e...

This frothy bio-fantasy about the 18th century composer...

War Pony review - life on the Pine Ridge reservation in sout...

Set on the lands of the Oglala Lakota in South Dakota, War...

Princess Ida, OAE, Wilson, QEH review - musical brilliance u...

Sullivan’s score for his eighth collaboration with Gilbert is vintage work, mostly equal to the splendid sentinels flanking it, Iolanthe...

Matter as Actor, Lisson Gallery review - living in a materia...
It is fitting that I watch Otobong Nkanga’s performance on a stranger’s smartphone screen. Solid Maneuvers, 2015, is about...
Album: McFly - Power to Play

When McFly returned to our loudspeakers in the summer of 2020 with Young Dumb Thrills, the record marked their first in a decade. The...